Improvement in cotton-bale ties



I @guinn- 'tat @anni @Hita -RICHARD G. LATTING, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. Leners Patent No. 61,217, ma Janna@ 15, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-BALB TIES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, RICHARD G. LATTING, of New Orleans, in the parish oil Orleans, and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and improved Buckle for Cotton-Bale Ties; and I do hereby declare the following to -be a full, clear, and exact description of' the same, sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to which the invention appertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the buckle imposition upon a bale.

Figure 2 is a view of the under side ofthe buckle.

Figure 3 is a sectionalview, on the line :l: as, fig. 2. I

This improvement upon cotton-bale ties has the following distinctive features: rst, teeth upon the ridge or rib which presses upon the hoop, and around which the hoop laps; second, a shoulder in the notched loop forming a bed for the hoop to keep it from slipping out of place; third, the removal of lmetal from the centre base of the ridge on both sides of it, so as to. form an arch, which gives the required strength with much Aless weight. The object ofthe first-cited improvement is to make the rib bind upon and bite the hoop, to make it more difficult of withdrawal; of the second, to prevent the slipping laterally of the hoop, which might other'- wise hang on one side of the notch and endanger its breaking, unless both sides of thevnotch are covered by the hoop in the bed', or bring one edgev to the notch and permit its being pulled out of the buckle; `of the third, to make the buckle lighter by placing the material in positions where it is eiective, and removing it where it is superfluous. 'lhe desideratum is maximum strength with a given amount of material. In the drawings- A is the ilat portion of the buckle; B thczunbroken loop around the bar I), of which one end, m, of the hoop is first passed and folded underneath; `C is the loop, having an oblique notch, d, and shoulder, It; and G is thc downward-projecting rib or ridge, with teeth, g, to rest upon that portion, fn, of the hoop which passes beneath it after insertion through the notch d into the `loop C. A comparison with other ridge ties will demonstrate the di'erence between them and the present buckle, and it will be seen that the metal of the central portion in mine has been removed totsuch an ext-ent as to make the loop B of an arched shape, O, towards the central bar, G, making the latter constitute an arched central support or brace. In operation, the end m of the hoop is wrapped around the bar b, and then the edge of the hoop near the end 'n is passed into the notch d until the rear edge passes the point .9, when it is retracted laterally, so that the first entering edge lies against the shoulder It when the end n is passed under the toothed ridge Gr, the double bend in the hoop and the toothed ridge preventing its withdrawal when the cotton is released and springs against it.

Having described my invention, what I-elaim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The toothed ridge G g, as and for. the purpose described.

2. The shoulder h in the bar of the loop C, as and for the purpose described.

3. The arched central bar G, substantially as described and represented.

R. G. LATTING.

Witnesses:

SoLoN C. KEMON, JOHN A. Wnnansnnm. 

